A SOUTHAMPTON widow died several weeks after falling at her home and breaking her leg.

Joyce Kendall was found on the floor of her sheltered housing flat in Victor Court, Thornhill, on Christmas Eve afternoon by a carer.

A Winchester inquest heard how the 96-year-old was taken by ambulance to Southampton General Hospital, where an operation was performed on her broken femur.

But Mrs Kendall then developed pneumonia and died in hospital on January 9 of multi-organ failure.

Senior central and southern Hampshire coroner Grahame Short recorded a verdict that her accidental death had resulted from her fall.